Daniel E. Lungren: “I look now and see it didn't work. We haven't had the protection of the farm workers that I believe we should have.”

The greatest protection for our civil liberties and against their invasion was the construct of government that we set up.

I think you do what we've done in the past, which is require the companies responsible to pay for the remediation.

Senator Everett Dirksen once said a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

A healthy skepticism of government... has been replaced in some cases with outright cynicism, and that is in fact harmful to our democracy.